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East Wind Road

July 19th 2008 03:57
This is the basic premise for my AugNoWriMo (August Novel Writing Month, a spinoff of NaNoWriMo). I'm going to be talking a lot about AugNoWriMo, as I'm incredibly hyped up about it, and excited. And when I'm not planning AugNoWriMo, or updating about it, I'll be updating about NaNoWriMo, or planning that.

So here's my idea so far:

Robyn just turned nineteen, and she's spending a week in her grandmother's small town in preparation for her return to college. She has always loved to take long walks. After an argument with her grandmother about her future and the college courses she's taking, she goes for a walk.


She knows the town pretty well after all these years-she even lived here for two years-so when she sees an unfamiliar road, she takes it.

East Wind Road. Where she discovers raving lunatics, mass murderers, and battlefields where nobody has buried or burned the dead... Places where executions were committed weeks ago; a dragon; a party of cannibalistic hunters-and, to top it all off, a river too large to swim across that bars her passage back.

She must now find her way out of East Wind Road, with only one companion-the boy that takes pity on her after she saves him from a mass murderer. After all, he lives here. He knows all about it...
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An Admirable Cause

July 18th 2008 07:26
I'm. Not. Getting. Excited. About. Nanowrimo.

Yes, I am. And I just thought of something. I love Nanowrimo more than anything, I really do, and I have a question to ask. In hopefulness. You see, for the entire five years of my Nanowrimo career, I have been statistically broke.

Here is what I am asking for. I don't get blog revenue, at all, ever, because I'm not eighteen yet and therefore cannot sign up for AdSense. In its place, I am asking for those of you who actually do have money-even ten dollars to spare-to offer me an incentive.

My goal this year, as anyone who actually reads my blog regularly will know, is to write two hundred and fifty thousand words in the month of November. Nanowrimo has presented me with endless hours of fun, encouragement, and with amazing word counts which never could have been gained without that encouragement.


And so I ask of all of you who care, and who have supported this blog in its various levels of success throughout the years, for a kind gesture.

Nanowrimo is a Not-For-Profit charity that runs mostly off of the donations of its amazing community. I have longed for years to be one of those donors, and while I accept-slightly bitterly-that I won't be this year, I am praying that perhaps somebody will donate on my behalf.

This is my incentive to get to my goal. I hereby offer:

I, Dianna L. Gunn, agree to post (minimally) weekly updates on my Nano Novels, including at least one excerpt during the month. I will also post a link to my profile so you can see that the word count is actually there, every week. I will make an effort to remain active in the Orble community as well as write my novels.

I propose to you, my readers and the Orble community, that should I reach two hundred and fifty thousand words of writing, those who are able and willing will donate $5-10 (or if you're generous, more) dollars towards NaNoWriMo (I believe you can also say it's in my name, then I get a little halo over my username, which I would love. And I also believe you actually get something FOR the donation) and comment here.

However, if I break any of the above agreements and do not a) post weekly b) post at least one excerpt c) link to my profile every post and d)make the word count, I ask nothing of you.

In other words, I'm asking for a reward for my writing. And that reward is not for me-it is for NaNoWriMo and its community. Which includes, but is most certainly not limited to, myself and some very close friends. Every year, it gets more and more expensive for them to host it.

Let's keep NaNoWriMo running-and me writing! This is just the kick in the pants I'll need to actually pull through.

Those of you who are willing and able to make a donation if I meet my side of the agreement, please comment with who you are and if you are willing to donate. I will make sure to thank you all in a post should I succeed and the donations come through. I will also, for bloggers, make sure to link to your wonderful blogs on the NaNoWriMo site. To make the deal sweeter.

Thank you all very much for reading this, and if any of you DO agree to donate, thank you for donating. I am grateful to my readers and even more grateful to those willing to donate. I cannot say it enough. And this is one way of making my dream of donation come true.

~Dianna
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AugNoWriMo

July 18th 2008 06:36
By now, everyone who even bothers to read my blog on a sort-of frequent basis must understand that I have a deep, intrinsic love of blogging.

I just realized I've been blogging here for over a year! Nevermind that. We have more important things to talk about. Like writing goals.

Goals are what get people up in the morning, what sends them to work, even if their goal is just to survive another day at work. Goals get kids to do their homework, even if it's 'pass dammit pass'. Goals, my friends, are what get us writers going.

Yes, Nanowrimo is all about goals. This is what I love about it. It has such a community, such a spirit, such a loving group of people all headed towards the same goal. It is not about how good of a writer you are, it is not about your grammar, your originality, or anything like that.

It is about making a goal, setting a deadline, and meeting it. I love NaNoWriMo, now and forever, and this will be my... fifth year holy crap. That's okay. I love it. I love it with all my heart for everything that it embodies.

And, for practice, I'm going to be participating in AugNoWriMo this year as well, aiming for fifty thousand words in 20 days. I have a story and everything, and I hope to blog actively during this period as well. Even if it's just to say 'holy crap I wrote twenty five thousand words today!'

Fictional Worlds itself is coming close to a year of existence, and I Wish This Were 42 is already there. I'm glad to still be here and I hope that the devotion that keeps me coming back will also keep me on track this August.

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Anyone who wishes to join me may comment here, and I would love to have people encouraging me throughout the month, and kicking me in the pants to write should I need it, which I probably will.

I am so glad to be writing this-not only because it's about NaNoWriMo, in a way, which is my life for two months out of every year (half of October, all of November, and half of December), and a passion for me-but also because I have the dedication to still be writing here.

And because I'd love to see some of you take on this challenge with me.

Come on, I dare you.
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Write What You Love...

July 18th 2008 05:35
Some people say 'write what you know'. But if I recall correctly, Stephen King and I have the same belief-that it is best to write what you love.

Because we can all write about what we learned in school, but most of us wouldn't want to. We know it-but we do not love it. And if we are forced to write something we do not love, it is by far a lesser product than what it would be if we loved it


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Fanfiction: Good, Bad, Or Indifferent?

July 15th 2008 04:21
Fanfiction. That which writers of varying quality from all over the web write. That
which all professional writers have extremely varying opinions on. Nobody can deny its existence; it's practically everywhere. And there is fanfic for almost everything.

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Adopt-A-Plot: Nanowrimo Love

July 14th 2008 02:00
Nanowrimo. Yes I do talk about it a lot. Why? Because it is one of the most fun writing challenges I have ever encountered. The challenge itself can be amazginly fun. Fifty thousand words... Encouraging people to reach the finish line, seeing how quickly you can reach it, is so much fun.

And not only that. But there is the most amazing sense of community when it comes to Nanowrimo. Everybody helps everybody else out. We're all friends there, even when we're friends in competition. Even our competition is friendly, and it truly is the most encouraging thing I've ever done


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Writing-passion, art, and so much more...

July 3rd 2008 04:02
To the true writer, to the serious writer, writing is a passion; an art. It is more than that though-it is the writer's soul, their life, their purpose. Writing isn't about mechanics. It's about love.

Only someone who truly loves the work they're doing can become a truly amazing writer. It takes so much time and effort to write something beautiful, especially a novel, but more than that it takes passion and love. You have to feel for your characters-or as your characters-and you have to feel connected to the plot


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Becoming The Character

July 1st 2008 05:44
Some actors become their roles; when in role, they think and feel as if they were the character in reality. Often with a very loose grip of the truth, and sometimes without a grip of it at all.

Some writers become their characters. It is an art form and it is the purest, in my mind, form of characterization. To really become your character, not just control them and tell them what to do; but to feel as though you and that character are one. For writers who plan this may not be so great. Personally I get so into it that I don't know what comes next, I may know some future event but nothing in the 'now' of the story


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Words On A Page

June 16th 2008 03:56
Writing: the art of putting COHERENT words on a page... and so much more.

Just because you can perform the act of writing words coherently doesn't make you a true writer. A true writer takes talent and hard work. To be a true writer you have to be determined to write, to want to write, to love writing


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Challenging Oneself

June 15th 2008 17:44
Part of being a writer is challenging yourself. You have to challenge yourself to write. You have to challenge yourself to, say, write a blog every day. Or a few pages of your novel. Or a short story. Even a poem.

But without challenging yourself to do your best and do it every single day, you're not going to make it anywhere. Oh hell, most of us aren't gonna make it anywhere ANYWAY. LIfe is just like that; it sucks. Plain and simple. But at least we can TRY


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Support Nanowrimo! (LINK)

June 14th 2008 00:09
Reading something over on Writer's Notes (link included to blog) got me thinking about NaNoWriMo. So I checked out the site.

And discovered that one of their fundraisers which they did not expect to work out worked out beautifully. I am so happy to hear it! I love Nanowrimo and have been a firm supporter for four years now. I always wished I could donate. But I have never yet had the money. Here we go, though, I've got something to show off-a free and easy way to support NaNoWriMo


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A Writer's Work

June 13th 2008 23:14
What good is writing?

Let me tell you what writing is good for


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Trying To Start Again

June 13th 2008 21:09
It's so hard... so hard. I've been through hell the last few months and I've lost all drive to live. All drive to write.

But I'm back. I'm going to try again. I HAVE to try again. If I am to survive the hardest trials of my life, if I am to survive these things, I must write. I have always written. It is my release. It has been with me since grade three, one of my hard years. It was there when I had to move, Daddy got sick, my parents split up. It was there all throughout the worst school ever


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A Lack Of Drive

March 11th 2008 00:47
I haven't been writing much and to be honest a lot of my drive seems to have disappeared with a stressful weekend. I'm sick, lacking smokes, possibly being broken up with, among other things.

It sucks to be me. And when it sucks to be me... sometimes that's good for my writing, other times it's horrible. Right now it's horrible


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